Urine testing strips
can tell you when blood glucose levels are too high and detect the presence of
ketones in urine. For blood glucose monitoring, blood testing is
definitely superior, since urine can only tell you what your blood glucose
levels were a few hours ago, while blood tests report current levels. You
should not make insulin therapy decisions based on a urine test strip.
However, when it comes to ketones -- a byproduct of lipid fat and protein
metabolism -- urine testing is best. Ketone
presence in urine is a sign that your pet may be in a state of Ketoacidosis,
a life-threatening condition that requires immediate medical attention
(usually IV or subcutaneous fluids to re-hydrate and Regular insulin to bring
BGs down quickly).

Explanation of Urine Glucose measured with URI-CHECK Since the
URI-CHECK measure urine glucose, not blood glucose( BG), they really don't
correspond to any numbers from the blood glucose. All they measure is how much
glucose has spilled over from the kidneys into the bladder. The longer the
spilling before the cat pees, the darker the strip. If BG(blood glucose) is
less than 200 or so for the entire time the urine collected in the bladder,
then it will read negative. BG could be 195, or 25, you can't tell by the
urine strip.

If
the urine strip shows color, it also tells you almost nothing - except BG was
over the spilling level. BG could be 200, 300, 600, or 900. You don't know,
since the strip color only measures glucose concentration in the urine - which
is a time dependent number. Darker numbers usually mean poor duration with BG
over 250 - that's about it. And then there are BG spikes, which may produce
any color possible on the glucose strips, depending on the time width of the
spike.

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